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Time to work on the addition

Yesterday, I worked on the first sex scene between the hero and heroine. When I say I worked on it, I have to admit it was already written - at least the skeleton of it was done. Time to fine tune it. Fine tuning is my specialty. Going in and adding the nuances. It's like decorating your house. You paint the walls first, choose the right carpet or flooring, then you move in the furniture. The finishing touches include pictures and knickknacks. The nice thing about decorating a room is that you can change it up when you get bored, just like when you write a sex scene. You can start off sweet, but then you can change it to steamy if you want.

I know what you're thinking - we all like it hot and steamy. Right? But admit it, sometimes you like it slow with all the bells and whistles.

So, when I edit, sometimes I have to change it. Sometimes it needs just a bit of tweaking and sometimes it needs a lot of work, because as we write, our characters get more fully developed and we realize when we reread that maybe, just maybe, our sweet heroine is really a tigress in disguise and just needed the right man to bring it out.

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Who is Vivienne?

I have been in love with romance since I could first read those happily ever after stories. I always believed in happy endings. I believe in Prince Charming. I guess I am a hopeless romantic.
I wrote my first novel at the age of 17 and have been hooked ever since. I am an active member of Chicago-North RWA and write historical romance novels. What time period do I write? It depends on what time period I am currently in love with. Right now - I am writing Georgians set in England, that dabble in the colonies as well. I have written Civil War, Regency, English Civil War, Crimean War, American expansion, Caribbean pirates, and Victorians.
Once I discovered I could combine my love for romance with my love of history, nothing could stop me from a good story steeped in history.

August's Quote

August is here and with it the closing of summer - pools shutting down, schools starting, and days getting shorter.

"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children." Madeleine L'Engle

What I'm Working on Now

Right now, like many of my friends who just got back from Chicago-North's Spring Fling, I am working on tweaking my submission to send to an editor. I am hoping my dear friends were lucky enough to get a request for a full submission.

The novel I wrote about last month is the one requested, only I have changed the name. Instead of being called "Scarlet Moon" I have changed the named to "Her Lover was a Spy".